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On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:57:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> only request is to make this thing able to handle ipv6 as
> well even if no current chips could facilitate that yet.

I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If current chips can't handle ipv6
lro there is no way to actually test it and the code will surely bitrot.